Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners does not go that route. It opens with a shot of a snowy forest, where a deer quietly noses around for food. Into the frame comes the barrel of a shotgun.
Just so, semantic theories and foundational theories of meaning are, pretty clearly, different sorts of theories. The term âtheory of meaningâ has, in the recent history of philosophy, been used to stand for both semantic theories and foundational theories of meaning.
Semantics considers the content of communication. Semantics is the study of the meaning of signs-the association between signs and behaviour. Semantics can be considered as the study of the link between symbols and their referents or concepts â particularly the way in which signs relate to human behavior.